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View from the tablinum to the peristyle of the House of the Black Hall in Herculaneum.

Red sandstone cliffs in the Black Hills, Wyoming, former Kiowa territory which is still considered sacred ground by the Kiowa nation. Photograph by Walter Siegmund, 2005.

A memorial carved from limestone of an ancient Black Sea warrior with his spear and shield. The Bosphorus region of present-day Turkey, c. 125-50 BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow.)

This relief is made of marble, and it comes from one of the ancient Greek colonies that were located along the Black Sea. It depicts several nymphs and was created c. 200-150 BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Front cover of Empire of the Black Sea by Duane Roller. Published by Oxford University Press

This relief is made of marble, and it comes from one of the ancient Greek colonies that were located along the Black Sea. It depicts a nymph and was created c. 200-150 BCE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

Limestone grave-stela of a Greek woman from the Black Sea. Cape Tuzla (Taman, Russia), c. 100 BCE-100 CE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)

This is a picture of the Black Tower (Italian: Torre Nero) in the foreground and White Tower (Italian: Torre Bianca) in the background at the medieval fortress of Castelgrande in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

The memorial plaque from the 1902 monument commemorating the victims of the Black Hole of Calcutta incident in 1756. St John's Churchyard, Kolkata, India.

This is a picture of the Black Tower (Italian: Torre Nero) at the medieval fortress of Castelgrande in Bellinzona, Switzerland.